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Connecticut School Document 



No. 3 —1906 



(WHOLE NUMBER - 278) 



Public and special acts 



relating to education 



Passed January session 1905 



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MEMBERS 



STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 



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Henry Roberts Governor Hartford 

RoLLiN S Woodruff Limt-Governor . . ' . New Haven 

William G Sumner New Haven 

Edward D Robbins Wethersfield 

William H Palmer Jr Norwich 

George M Carrington . Winsted 



Charles D Hine Secretary Hartford 
AsAHEL J.Wright Clerk Hartford 

OFFICE 

Room 42 Capitol Hartford 



April, 1906. 



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Public acts relating to education 

January session 1905 



CHAPTER 17 

Amending an act concerning joint school districts 

Section 2221 of the general statutes is hereby amended 
by striking out in the last line therof the words " and 
the same shall be remitted to the taxpayers of said town," 
so that said section as amended shall read as follows : When- 
ever any town has voted, or shall vote, to assume control of 
all the schools, as provided in this chapter, in case there 
is a joint district the selectmen of the towns out of which 
such joint district is formed shall meet within ten days after 
receiving a written request for such meeting signed by the 
first selectman of either of said towns, and appraise the 
schoolhouse and other school property owned and used by 
said joint district and determine what proportion is owned by 
the inhabitants of the towns residing in said district. If 
the several boards of selectmen shall not agree, the same 
shall be determined by a judge of the superior court upon 
application of either of the boards of selectmen, and his de- 
cision shall be final. The proportion belonging to the tax- 
payers of the town in v/hich the property is not located, after 
deducting the indebtedness of the district, shall be paid to 
the treasurer of such town by the treasurer of the town in 
which such property is located. 

CHAPTER 36 

Amending an act concerning the attendance of children in the 
public schools 

Chapter 29 of the public acts of 1903 is hereby amended 
by inserting after the word " decide " in the second line of 
said chapter the words " or whenever the state board of 
education shall ascertain," by inserting after the word " edu- 
cation " in the eleventh ■ line thereof the words " or from 



the state board of education, if the notice shall have been 
given by the said state board of education/' and by insert- 
ing after the word " education " in the thirteenth line thereof 
the words " or to said state board of education as the 
case may be," sO' that said chapter as amended shall read as 
follows : Whenever the school visitor, town school com- 
mittee, or board of education of any town or district shall 
by vote decide, or whenever the state board of education shall 
ascertain that a child over fourteen and under sixteen years 
of age has not schooling sufficient tO' warrant his leaving! 
school tO' be employed, and shall so notify the parent or guar- 
dian of said child in writing, the parent or guardian of said 
child shall cause him to- attend school regularly during the days 
and hours that the public school in the district in which said 
parent or guardian resides is in session, and until the parent 
or guardian of said child has obtained from said board of 
school visitors, town school committee, or board of educa- 
tion, or from the state board of education, if the notice 
shall have been given by the said state board of education, 
a leaving certificate stating that the education of said child 
is satisfactory to said visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education, or to said state board of education, as 
the case may be; provided, that said parent or guardian 
shall not be required tO' cause his child to^ attend school 
after the child is sixteen years of age. Each week's failure 
on the part of a person to comply with the provisions of 
this section shall be a distinct offense, punishable Vvdth a 
fine not exceeding five dollars, and the provisions of section 
21 17 shall be applicable to all proceedings under this act. 

CHAPTER 41 

Concerning public libraries 

Any town, borough, or city may appropriate and expend 
such sums of money as may be necessary to provide and 
pay .for the land for a suitable site for a public library, situ- 
ated in such town, borough, or city, which library may be 
the property of a corporation Vv^ithout capital stock, or may 
be the property of such town, borough, or city ; but such 
library shall be free to its inhabitants ; and such town, borough, 
or city may appropriate such sums of money as may be 
necessary to maintain and support such library for a term 
of not exceeding ten years. 



CHAPTER 50 
Concerning school libraries at temporary homes 

Section i The state board of education, or a committee 
appointed by said board, may provide books and apparatus to 
be used at or in any of the public schools in charge of said 
board at county temporary homes, at an expense not ex- 
ceeding in any year the amount hereinafter authorized. 

Sec 2 The treasurer of the state, upon the order of 
the secretary of the state board of education, shall annually 
pay said state board of education ten dollars for each public 
school within such temporary homes in charge of said board, 
for which such books or apparatus are provided, and if the 
number of scholars in any such school exceeds one hundred, 
the treasurer shall pay to said board ten dollars for each 
one hundred or fractional part of one hundred scholars in 
actual attendance at said school. 

CHAPTER 97 
-Concerning the election of town school committees 

Section i Section 2215 of the general statutes is hereby 
amended by inserting in the fourth line of said section after 
the word " either " the word " three," so that said section 
as amended shall read as follows: The selectmen of a town 
voting to consolidate shall determine, not later than the first 
Monday of May, the number of which the town school com- 
mittee shall consist. Such committee shall consist of either 
three, six, nine, or twelve residents of said town. Every 
such town shall, at a special meeting of said town called for 
the purpose by the selectmen, to be held on the first Monday 
of June following, elect by ballot a town school committee 
of the number determined upon by said selectmen. In all 
cases the number of the committee to be elected shall be 
stated in the warning of said meeting. Such election shall 
be conducted in the same manner as the annual elections of 
towns. 

Sec 2 Section 2216 of the general statutes is hereby 
amended by adding at the end thereof the words "If the num- 
ber of the committee to be elected shall be three, the members 
thereof shall all be annually elected at the annual town meet- 
ing, and no person shall vote for more than two-; the three 
persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be such 



•town school committee," so that said section as amended 
shall read as follows: If the number of the committee to be 
elected shall be six or twelve no person shall vote for more 
than half that number ; if the number be nine, no person shall 
vote for more than five, and the six, nine, or twelve persons, as 
the case may be, receiving the highest number of votes, shall be 
the town school committee of said town for the respective terms 
as hereinafter provided, commencing on the first Monday of 
July next following. The members of such comrnittee so 
elected shall divide themselves into three equal classes, hold- 
ing ofiice respectivel}^ until the second, third, and fourth subse- 
quent annual town elections of said town, at which elections 
and at every annual election, subsequent to the last thereof, 
two, three, or four members, as the case may be, shall be 
elected by ballot for a term of three years, in the manner pre- 
scribed in section 2133. If the number of the committee to 
be elected shall be three, the members thereof shall all be an- 
nually elected at the annual town meeting, and no person shall 
vote for more than two ; the three persons receiving the highest 
number of votes shall be such town school committee. 

CHAPTER 98 
f' , Concernifig free public libraries 

Section i The state board of education shall annually ap- 
point five persons who shall be known as the Connecticut 
public library committee. No member of said committee 
shall receive any compensation for his services as such mem- 
ber, but the members of said committee shall be paid their 
necessary expenses. The committee may expend a sum not 
to exceed two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for 
the purposes set forth in section two of this act for clerical 
assistance and incidental and necessary expenses incurred 
in the discharge of its duties. The treasurer of the state 
shall pay the bills incurred under this act upon the order of 
the state board of education. Said board shall keep and 
semi-annually render to the comptroller an account of all 
money expended under this act, and the comptroller shall audit 
said account. 

Sec 2 The Connecticut public library committee shall give 
to communities advice and assistance in the organization, 
establishment, and administration of free public libraries, and 
, shall extend to all free public libraries aid in selecting and 
cataloguing books and in library management, and may for 



the purposes of this act visit and inspect libraries organized 
under the provisions of section 4633 of the general statutes, 
and may suggest improvements in said libraries. Said com- 
mittee is authorized to purchase and arrange books and pic- 
tures to be loaned to such public libraries, schools, associa- 
tions, and individuals as the committee may select. 

Sec 3 Section 4631 of the general statutes and chapter 
142 of the public acts of 1903 and all acts and parts of acts 
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 

CHAPTER 115 
Concerning certificates of age of employed children 
Section 4705 of the general statutes is hereby amended 
to read as follows : Every person or corporation employing 
a child under sixteen years of age in any mechanical, mercan- 
tile, or manufacturing establishment shall obtain a certificate 
showing that the child is over fourteen years of age. Such 
certificate shall be signed by the registrar of births, mar- 
riages, and deaths, or by the town clerk of the town where 
the child was born, or by a teacher of the school which the 
child last attended, or by the person having custody of the 
register of said school. If a child was not born in the United 
States, the state board of education may investigate and, if 
it appears that said child is over fourteen years of age, may 
grant a certificate accordingly, and this certificate may be 
accepted as evidence of age. The parent or guardian of any 
child shall state, under oath, to the secretary or agent of 
the state board of education, the date of birth of the child, 
and shall present any family record, passport, or other docu- 
mentary evidence which said board may require, showing the 
age of the child. The said secretary or agents may admin- 
ister the oath required by this section. Every employer or 
other person having control of any establishment or premises 
where children under sixteen years of age are employed, 
who shall neglect to have and keep on file the certificates 
described in this section, or tO' show the same, with a list 
of the names of such children so employed, to the secretary 
or an agent of the state board of education, or to an agent 
of the board of school visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education, as the case may be, of the town in which 
the establishment or premises are located, when demanded 
during the usual business hours shall be fined not more than 
one hundred dollars. 



CHAPTER 137 

Concerning payment of debts of joint school districls 
Section i Whenever any school district which shall here- 
after become indebted by judgment for indebtedness here- 
after incurred shall be located in two or more towns, the 
committee of such school district, or, if there be no district 
committee for said district, the selectmen of the town in 
which the schoolhouse in such district is located, shall cause 
a tax sufficient to pay such indebtedness as shall be presented 
or exhibited to said committee or selectmen, as the case may 
be, by the judgment creditor or creditors, including the cost 
of levying and collecting such tax, to be laid, upon and ac- 
cording to the levies or assessment lists of said towns last 
before completed, on the district in the manner provided by 
law for school district taxes, except that, when there is no 
district committee for said district, the selectmen of said 
town wherein the schoolhouse is located shall perform the 
duties required by law of the district committee therein, 
and the tax collector of said town shall perform the duties of 
tax collector of said district. Said tax shall be collected and 
paid to said judgment creditor or creditors, and to the. per- 
sons entitled to fees and compensation for levying and col- 
lecting said tax. 

Sec 2 Whenever either of the towns in which such school 
district is located shall vote to consolidate its school dis- 
tricts and bring the same under town management, and shall 
subsequently vote to return to the district system, then such 
school district shall be, in law, the same school district as 
existed prior to said vote of consolidation of districts and 
liable for the indebtedness of said district as then existing. 
Sec 3 This act shall take effect from its passage. 

CHAPTER 174 
Concerning free text-hooks and school supplies 

Every town which has not heretofore directed its school 
visitors, town school committee, or board of education to 
purchase, at the expense of the town, the text-books and other 
school supplies used in the public schools of said town 
shall, at its annual town meeting in 1905, vote by ballot to 
determine whether the said school officers shall purchase text- 
books and supplies under the provisions of section 2135 of the 



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general statutes. At the said annual town meeting in 1905, 
the selectmen shall provide a ballot box plainly marked " free 
text-books," and in towns divided intO' wards or voting dis- 
tricts, for annual town meetings, a ballot box marked as 
aforesaid shall be provided at each of such wards or voting 
districts. Those electors who are in favor of directing the 
said school officers to purchase text-books and supplies un- 
der the provisions of said section 2135 shall, deposit in said 
ballot box a ballot v/ith the words " free text-books yes " 
written or printed thereon, and those who are opposed shall 
deposit a ballot with the words " free text-books no " written 
or printed thereon. The ballots cast shall be examined, sorted, 
and counted, and the result declared, in the manner provided 
by law^ and if a majority of the ballots so^ given in, have the 
words " free text-books yes," said school officers shall purchase 
such text-books and supplies under the provisions of said 
section 2135. 



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Special acts 



Concerning school property in the town of Plymouth 
Page 588 

That the town of Plymouth shall succeed to all rights which 
any of its school districts had in any real estate within said 
town at the time when said town voted to consolidate its school 
districts, 

Concermng school taxes in the city of Hartford 
Page 68s 

Section i The board of finance of the city of Hartford 
is hereby authorized and directed to apportion and divide, 
among the school districts of the town of Hartford, an amount 
not to exceed one-half of the amount raised by the tax of 
one mill on its grand lists laid in accordance with section 
2271 of the general statutes, which said sum, not exceeding 
one-half, shall be apportioned and divided among said school 
districts in accordance with the needs of each district, so as 
to equalize the taxation for school purposes as nearly as pos- 
sible ; but no district shall receive any of said apportionment 
unless the tax laid in said district for the maintenance and 
support of schools is at least five mills; and provided, that 
no district laying a tax of at least five mills as aforesaid, shall 
receive a less total amount from said one mill tax than it 
would receive if said one mill tax was divided as a whole 
in accordance with section 2271 of the general statutes. The 
balance of the amount raised from the tax of one mill, after 
deducting the total amount apportioned by said board of 
finance, shall be divided among all the school districts of said 
town, as provided in said section 2271 oi the general statutes. 

Sec 2 The chairman of each of said school districts shall, 
on or before the first day of October in each year, present 
to said board of finance an estimate of the amount required 
for school purposes by the district of which he is chairman, 



over and above the amount received from other sources and 
the amount which would be raised from a five mills district 
tax, and, if required by said board of finance, shall make an 
itemized estimate of the money to be expended by the dis- 
trict during- the ensuing year. 

Sec 3 Said board of finance, at its first meeting in Oc- 
tober of each year, shall proceed to make the division and 
apportionment in accordance with section one of this act, 
and shall take up the matter at each meeting thereafter until 
it has completed such apportionment and division. 

Sec 4 As soon as said apportionment is made, the chair- 
man of said board of finance shall report to the city treasurer 
of the city of Hartford the amount that each district is en- 
titled to receive under said apportionment and division, and 
the city treasurer shall thereupon remit to the chairman of 
each school district the amount to- which said district is en- 
titled, together with the amount due said district under sec- 
tion 2271 of the general statutes for the balance of the amount 
raised by said one mill tax, after deducting the sum so appor- 
tioned and divided by said board of finance. 

Making appro pfiatipns for repairs at the state normal schools 

at New Britain and New Haven 

Page 701 

Section i That the state board of education is hereby 
authorized to cause a roof to be constructed upon the Prospect 
street building of the state normal school at New Britain in 
accordance with the original plans and specifications therefor, 
to cause new floors to be laid in the main building, and to 
repair the interior woodwork of said main building. 

Sec 2 The sum of fifty-five hundred dollars is hereby 
appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for all pur- 
poses specified in section one of this resolution. 

Sec 3 The said state board of education is hereby au- 
thorized to construct a coal bin and to make changes and 
repairs in the interior of the state normal school building at 
New Haven. 

Sec 4 The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby ap- 
propriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for all purposes 
specified in section three of this resolution. 



Sec 5 The state board of education shall, as often as once 
in every three months, file vouchers with the comptroller for 
all moneys expended by it under the provisions of this resolu- 
tion. 

Concerning school district nuinber seven in the totim of 
Brooklyn 
Page 716 

That School District Number Seven in the town of Brook- 
lyn is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to the 
other powers vested by law in said district, to^ raise, receive, 
and hold moneys for the purpose of caring for and maintaining 
cemeteries within said school district. 

Amending the charter of the city of Danbnry and consolidating 
the governments of the tozim and city of Danbury 

Pages 749, 753, 754, 755, 759, 760 

Sec 7 The said city of Danbury on and after said date 
[the first Monday of December, 1905] shall be divided into two 
districts. The first district shall comprise all the territory 
of said city and the second district shall comprise all the ter- 
ritory that lay without the limits of said city as the same ex- 
isted on the first day of January, 1905. 

Sec 21 The obligations now imposed upon the town of 
Danbury with respect to the support of schools outside of 
said second district are hereby imposed upon the said city of 
Danbury, and shall be an expense incurred by and charge- 
able to the first district hereinbefore described. 

Sec 22 All the powers and duties relating to schools 
of the town of Danbury heretofore vested in said town, and 
exercised in town meeting, shall, after said first Monday of 
December, 1905, be vested in the city of Danbury, and shall 
be exercised by said city, in a city meeting duly warned and 
held for that purpose, in the same manner and under the same 
provisions and restrictions as now provided for town meetings 
in the town of Danbury ; provided, that all taxes for the 
support and maintenance of schools shall be laid by said city 
in the same manner in which other taxes are laid. 

Sec 27 The four members of the town school committee 



whose terms of office shall expire on the first Monday of 
October, 1905, shall hold office until the first Monday of 
December, 1905. The four members of said committee whose 
term of office shall expire on the first Monday of October, 
1906, shall hold office until the first Monday of December, 
1906. The four members of said committee whose terms of 
office shall expire on the first Monday of October, 1907, shall 
hold office until the first Monday oi December, 1907. 

Sec 45 The city shall continue to be a consolidated school 
district ; and it shall be in place of the town of Danbury in 
all duties, powers, obligations, and other matters required 
by law of or by the town in all matters concerning educa- 
tion, and it shall act instead of the town ; and all the powers, 
obligations, duties, rights, and property of the town, whether 
as a town or as a consolidated school district, shall continue 
to be vested in and belong to said city. 

Sec 46 There shall continue to be a town school com- 
mittee composed of twelve members, elected as herein provided. 
The town school committee shall have all the powers now or 
hereafter vested in, and shall perform all the duties now or 
hereafter imposed by law on, the school committee and select- 
men of towns relative tO' school and educational matters ; and 
they shall have the superintendence, management, and con- 
trol of all matters concerning education, schools, and school 
property, and the power of fixing or changing the sites of 
schoolhouses. They shall audit and approve, monthly, all 
bills for the ordinary current expenses of their department, 
and report the same to the city auditor, who' shall thereupon 
certify whether or not the appropriation is sufficient for the 
payment thereof, and, if sufficient, he shall so certify to the 
city treasurer, and thereupon the same shall become due and 
payable. The president and secretary of the town school com- 
mittee may draw orders upon said treasurer in favor of the 
persons entitled to payment thereof. The captain of the po- 
lice shall assign one or more patrolmen to act as truant officer 
in enforcing the statutes in such case made and provided. 

Creating a board of Unance in the toiuii of Danbury 

Pages 1070, 1071 

Sec 7 On the first Monday of August in each year the 

board of finance shall hold a meeting, and at said meeting 

the town school committee shall submit estimates of the moneys 



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necessary to be appropriated for the maintenance of the schools 
of said town of Danbury for the next year ensuing. The 
total amount of appropriations for any one year shall not ex- 
ceed the estimated income for that year, nor shall any board 
of selectmen or town school committee of said town, nor the 
town in any special town meeting, vote to incur any liability 
or expense, by contract or otherwise, for which said town shall 
be responsible, in excess of the appropriations so made by 
said board. 

Making an appropriation for grading and improvements at 
the state normal school at Danbury 

Page 773 

Section i That the state board of education is hereby 
authorized to expend a sum not exceeding eight thousand 
dollars for the grading and improvement of the grounds of 
the state normal school at Danbury. 

Sec 2 The sum of eight thousand dollars is hereby ap- 
propriated for said purpose. The state board of education 
shall, as often as once in three months, file vouchers with the_^ 
comptroller for all expenditures made by it under the pro- 
visions of this resolution, and the comptroller shall thereupon 
draw his order on the treasurer for the amounts of such 
vouchers, not exceeding said sum hereinbefore appropriated. 

Revising the charter of the city of Nezv London 
Page 8o2 

Sec 48 All the rights, powers, and duties relative to educa- 
tion, schools, school districts, schoolhouses, school lands, school 
property, and school officers, of whatsoever kind, heretofore 
conferred or imposed, or hereafter to be conferred or im- 
posed upon towns, shall be and they are imposed and con- 
ferred, within the limits of the city of New London, upon 
said city, and upon the officers chosen by it for school pur- 
poses. 

Sec 49 The school visitors of said city shall continue 
to be such school officers, and shall be charged with and per- 
form all the duties of a school committee, and shall have all 
its powers, and shall act in the place and stead of such com- 
mittee in all things ; and the city of New London shall be 
substituted for and take the place of the town of New London , 



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in all matters concerning education, and shall act instead of 
said town in all of the same. 

Sec 50 All the powers, obligatory duties, rights, and 
property of said city of New London, whether as such city, 
or as a union school district, in respect to education and 
schools, shall be vested in and belong tO' said city of New 
London, which shall be and act for all intents and purposes, 
as such union school district, and all such powers and duties 
of said city shall be exercised and performed by said board 
of school visitors, unless otherwise ordered by said city. 

Consolidating the town and city governments of New Britain 

and revising the charter of the city of New Britain 

Pages 921, 932, 933 

ELECTIVE OFFICERS 

Sec 10 At the annual election of said city to be held on 
the second Tuesday of April, 1907, and annually thereafter, 
there shall be chosen four members of the school committee, 
and no person shall vote for more than twO' members of said 
committee, and said members of said school committee shall 
hold their respective offices for a term of three years com- 
mencing at noon on the third Tuesday of April, 1907, and 
until their successors shall be elected and qualified. All officers 
elected at the annual meetings of said city shall be voted for 
u.pon one ballot. 

SCHOOLS 

Sec 36 Said city shall be a consolidated school district 
and it shall be in place of the town of New Britain in all the 
duties, obligations, and other matters required by law' of or by 
the town concerning education, and it shall act in such mat- 
ters instead of the town. All the powers, obligations, rights, 
and property of the town, whether as a town or as a consol- 
idated school district, shall be vested in and belong tO' said city. 

Sec 37 There shall be a school committee of said city, 
with all the rights, duties, or powers concerning schools and 
educational matters now or hereafter vested in committees 
of consolidated school districts and selectmen of towns by the 
laws of this state. Said committee shall serve without com- 
pensation, except as hereinafter provided, and the present 
school committee of the consolidated school district of the 



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town of New Britain shall continue to be the committee of 
the consolidated school district of the city of New Britain 
until the successors of the present members of said commit- 
tee shall be elected and qualified as herein provided. 

Sec 38 Said committee may fix and determine the com- 
pensation to be paid to its officers. 

Sec 39 Said committee shall audit and approve monthly 
all bills for all current expenses of their department and re- 
port the same to the city auditor, and he shall thereupon certify 
whether or not the appropriation available for said expenses 
is sufficient for the payment of the bill so approved, and, if 
sufficient, he shall so certify to^ the city treasurer, and there- 
upon said committee by such official as they shall by their by- 
laws authorize, shall draw upon the treasurer in favor of the 
person entitled to the payment of any of such bills so approved, 
and the auditor shall keep a list of all bills so approved and 
filed with him. 

Sec 40 All business relative to the schools of said con- 
solidated school district of the city of New Britain hereto- 
fore transacted in town meetings shall hereafter be transacted 
in city meetings. 

Sec 41 Said committee may make, change, amend, or 
alter any rules, regulations, or by-laws which they may deem 
necessary relative tO' the manner of conducting the meetings 
and business of the committee, to the conduct and government 
of schools, and to the duties, terms of office, mode of election, 
and compensation of all persons employed by said committee 
and its officers ; and said committee may at any time remove 
any officer thereof or any person employed by them. 

Sec 42 Said committee shall make such estimates of its 
expenses for each . year and keep such accounts of its ex- 
penditures as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of said city, 
and shall make a report of its doings annually in each year 
to the common council at the close of each school year. 

Sec 43 When at any city meeting it shall be voted to 
erect any school building or enlarge any existing building, 
and the estimated expense thereof shall exceed five thousand 
dollars, and appropriation is made to meet the expense of 
erecting or enlarging such building, said meeting may, if 
warned for that purpose, vote to issue the bonds of said city 
for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of 
the erection or enlargement of such building, instead of levy- 



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ing tax to meet the same. Said meeting shall fix a rate 
of interest on said bonds, the time and place of payment of 
principal and interest thereon, the amount and kind of bonds, 
the manner in which they shall be issued and sold, and the 
person or persons empowered to sign the same on behalf of 
said city ; and ma.y provide that a certain part of said bonds 
may become due and payable in each year, and may provide 
a sinking fund for the purpose of the payment of such bonds. 
The avails of the sales of such bonds shall be paid into the city 
treasury and credited to said school committee' on the books of 
the treasurer for account of new school buildings, and no^ portion 
of the money raised by the sale of bonds shall be used for any 
purpose or paid out of the treasury except for defraying the 
expense of the construction or enlargement of such school 
buildings and for furnishing and equipping such new buildings 
or extensions, and any balance remaining after payment of 
such bills shall be available only for the purpose of the con- 
struction of new or the extension or enlargement of existing 
school buildings. 

Rez'isiiig the charter and consolidating the tozmi and city 

governments of Stamford 

Pages 1029, 1030 

Section 62 The territorial limits of said city as herein 
described shall be one school district. 

Sec 63 There shall be in said city a department of ed- 
ucation which shall have the care, management, and control 
of all the schools of said city. 

Sec 64 Said department shall be under the control of 
nine members, who shall be known as the board of education, 
and who shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to confirma- 
tion by a majority of the common council, so that not more 
than five of said members shall belong to any one political 
party, and so that each ward of said city shall have representa- 
tion thereon. 

Sec 65 On the second Monday of January, 1907, the 
mayor shall nominate to the common council three eligible 
persons as members of said board of education for a term of 
one year, three for a term of two years, and three for a term of 
three years, and annually thereafter three for a term of three 
years, to take the place of the three members whose terms expire, 
if said nominations are approved by a majority of the common 



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spec nj positions for the term for which they have beeT ap- 
ponted and the rules and regulations relating to schol 
It llZr'"''" "™^" ^" f"" f°- ™«> «Pea,ed or othet 

.1, ^"''^ ''°, .^""'"^ ^""""^ °' ed"«tion shall have the entire 
charge and direction of all the public schools in said cHy and 

nor of r'""' 1 f '™""y^ appropriated for the sup 
port of the sanie, and shall keep all the school buildings and 
apparatus used therein in good condition and repair Tnd shall 
have and possess all the powers, and be subjec^o aH of the 
genera, duties of boards of education, schoo/committes and 

wtr iJ" " ■" *". T'' '° '" '= "'^ -™« ^-e -- ste" t 
define b P™''^'™'' °f 'his act. It shall make its own by-laws, 
define the duties of its oflicers and committees, and preserve 

are' nor "' "•^r'='""" '" *■'"?'■- '" -"^ Public sclool 
as are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or with this 






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Sec 71 Said board of education shall, on or before the 
lirst day of December in each 3^ear, submit to the common 
council of said city a detailed estimate of the expenses for the 
support of said schools for the ensuing year, specifying so far 
as possible the items of such expense. 

Sec 72 Said board of education shall, annually, at the 
end of each fiscal year, transmit to the mayor a full report of 
its proceedings during said year, together with a statement 
showing the total amount of money received and expended 
for the support of said schools. 

Sec 73 Said board of education shall at least once a 
month send to the mayor a detailed statement of the expenses 
incurred during the preceding month, and said expenses shall 
be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the city. 

Sec 74 From the first Monday of October, 1906, to the 
second Monday of January, 1907, the schools of said town 
shall be under the care, management, and control of the school 
committee of said town in office on the first Monday of Octo- 
ber, 1906, and said committee shall submit to the common 
council the estimate provided for in section sevent3^-one. 



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